Influential Brazilian singer and composer João Gilberto was known best as a pioneer of the bossa nova genre, which found international popularity in the 1960s, Huffington Post reports. Gilberto's style - mixing traditional samba music with modern jazz influences - inspired bossa nova, or new trend, with many other artists after him. His versions of […]
Billie Eilish, Lewis Capaldi and Sheryl Crow are among the Glastonbury stars to give T-shirt to Oxfam in support of a campaign against "throwaway fashion", and with the aim of encouraging fans to buy second-hand fashion. The Cure's frontman Robert Smith gave a Disintegration Era shirt, worn in 1989, Kylie Minogue donated a sun visor, Johnny […]
Behemoth frontman Nergal, not an easy person to surprise, was blown away by what went down during band's set at Roskilde Festival over the weekend in Denmark. Nergal shared video on Instagram of festival crowd at Behemoth show, showing a couple that has engaged in oral sex for a “good 5-10 minutes”, whit the guy […]
From club session, through ambient soothers to vinyl-only obscurities, Fact Magazine made a list of "must-hear mixes of the last 30 days". There's Jubilee’s Miami take on Pride, DJ Marcelle’s three-turntable magic, an old-fashioned mixtape from Boards of Canada, Brian Eno in political storytelling mode, a fast and flamboyant Essential Mix by the seminal French […]
103 musicians, actors, and writers have signed an open letter supporting Talib Kweli in his row with a German festival. American rapper was removed from Dusseldorf's upcoming Open Source Festival, which kicks off July 12, after he refused to denounce a pro-Palestine campaign. The organizers dropped the legendary rap star/activist for reportedly failing to distance […]
Metallica played recently in Manchester, and during their anthemic song 'Master of Puppets' it was pouring rain, with the band enjoying the atmosphere, especially Lars Ulrich who had raindrops jumping back from his drum kit (watch below). It's not actually dangerous, the rain and the numerous cables...
More than five million people tune in each week to watch BBC One's drama Gentleman Jack about the eventful life of 19th Century landowner Anne Lister and her secret female lover, as BBC reports. The programme ends with song of the same name by female folk duo O'Hooley & Tidow. The song first appeared on […]
"She moved into people’s houses because they liked the idea of having Nico in the spare room, but then they would say the kids were scared of her, so she got a flat" - Phil Jones tells the Guardian about Nico, model and a singer, who spent the 1980s in Manchester, where a new show […]
It's because it's so unexpecting, and turned out to be quite funny, which is why it is so great. CoS says "the cover is an unexpectedly jazzy synthpop rendition", which is true, but, simply put, they were just having the best of times. Listen below.
Well, this is just the sweetest thing - the 3foot Person Festival is held at Hylands Park in Chelmsford in England, it offers music and dancing, and a lot of bubbles, none of which is coming from alcohol. It's aimed at children under five, so the bubbles are soapy, and friends that keep festival-goers company […]
Guardian picked out the best 20 Australian songs for the month of July, a good starting point for discovery. Some of those are these: a world-beating tune 'Ready' by Montaigne, funkyish Black Eyed Peas tune 'In Control' by Baker Boy, indie bubblegum pop 'Backseat' by Ali Barter, psych rock 'I’ll Try Anything' by Pluto Jonze, […]
Kanye West has been holding weekly concerts, which he calls Sunday Service, since January, and now he's going a step further, as The Sun reports - he is going to establish his own religious organisation. He has reportedly bought a plot of land near his home in Los Angeles where he intends to build "temporary […]
“I’ve never been in a band that’s felt as connected to their fans as Spiritbox is. With Spiritbox and our fans, it’s been like love at first sight. This band makes me feel like I’m 16 again" - band's singer Courtney LaPlante says in an interview with the Loudwire. LaPlante and her husband, guitarist Michael Stringer, […]
RUI HO is Berlin based Chinese artist making electronic music that combines modern club music with traditional Chinese sounds. Her new EP 'In Pursuit of the Sun 逐日' sees the producer exploring the classical Chinese text of the Shan-hai Ching through the lens of hardcore, trance and jungle, Fact Magazine reports. Listen to the EP […]
Nicki Minaj will perform in Saudi Arabia at the Jeddah World Fest on 18 July, as the ultraconservative kingdom sheds decades of restrictions on entertainment. Minaj is known for her provocative style, her lyrics are often laced with profanities, and her videos show her half, of more-than-half naked. In a tweet commenting on Minaj in […]
In Revenge of the She-Punks, “punk professor” Vivien Goldman examines female space in music and how it has evolved. In her book she attempts to "amplify female voices across cultures, continents and generations and to understand the relationship between genre and gender, all the while showing how oppression and hard-won freedoms have yielded some of the […]
Rolling Stone has unveiled five new daily interactive charts tracking music consumption in the U.S - Top 100 Songs, Top 200 Albums, Artists 500, Trending 25 for new songs seeing the biggest gains in popularity every week and Breakthrough 25 for rising artists who have never appeared on the Artist 500 chart. The five charts will update on […]
“I walked off stage and the security guards took me back down and it was just amazing. The way security brought me back down was in front of everyone and I was walking past people who were screaming my name. I had the best time of my life” - fifteen-year-old Alex Mann tells Guardian about […]
Alessandro Cortini, Nine Inch Nails keyboard player, will debut on Mute this summer with a new album, 'Volume Massimo', that “combines his fondness for melody with the rigour of experimental practice” over eight tracks, as Fact Magazine reports. It arrives on September 27, and judging by the tracklist, there's plenty of love, albeit bitter - 'Amore […]
Maynard James Keenan of Tool is an upcoming guest on AXS TV’s series Rock and Roll Road Trip, hosted by former Van Halen singer Sammy Hagar. In a pre-release clip from the episode, Hagar asks Maynard about how he comes up with the rhythms and time signatures in Tool songs (“6/8, or 6, 7/9 or […]
Metal, hardcore, punk, and dark folk bands got together for compilation 'Riffs for Reproductive Justice', that’s raising money for the National Network of Abortion Funds and the Yellowhammer Fund, as Brooklyn Vegan reports. The compilation features contributions from Thou, Hether Fortune, Emma Ruth Rundle, Ithaca, Woe, Redbait, and more. Listen to the full 33-song collection […]
U2 fan site ATU2 has uncovered a live recording of the band from the summer of 1979, the oldest known recording of the Irish band, and it features two previously unheard songs. It was on August 11, exactly 40 years ago that U2 played the Dandelion Market in Dublin, and the show was taped by […]
Eddie Vedder performed in Düsseldorf on Sunday, where he included a very special cover of Chris Cornell's song 'Seasons'. It was the first time Vedder had performed the song live and solo, and he dedicated it to Cornell's daughter Lily, saying he heard the news of Cornell's daughter being born on that date 19 years […]
Loudwire made a list of 10 new metal bands "everybody should hear" in 2019, it's these: Ukraine’s Jinjer lead by Tatiana Shmailyuk and her highly impressive guttural vocals; hardcore-infused metal by Knocked Loose; Danish black-gaze by Mol; nu-metalers Tallah; Siberian black-metal by Ulta; UK death-metal by Venom Prison; Dallas/Texas band Creeping Death does not play […]
Talib Kweli, John Legend, Yusuf Islam, and actor Mahershala Ali have vowed to help raise funds for the restoration and preservation of Nina Simone's childhood home. Now a crowdfunding campaign has been launched on Indiegogo to allow members of the public to donate to efforts to renovate the exterior of the house in Tryon, North […]
American singer Fiona Apple will donate all of the 2019 and 2020 earnings from TV and movie placements of her hit single 'Criminal' to the While They Wait, a fund that helps refugees secure life necessities, immigration fees, and legal assistance, CNN reports. “After months and months of reading the news about how my country […]
The Quietus made a selection of the world's most interesting punk and hardcore from the month of June. They obviously like queer Mexican goth punks Heterofobia the most ("infallible combination of descriptors"), but there's more punk gold to be found. Extended Hell is a great name, and New York band's music is just pure hardcore. […]
Lil Nas X has set a new record with his breakout hit 'Old Town Road' - the country-trap tune is now the longest-running Hip Hop song at #1 on the Hot 100, All Hip Hop reports. 'Old Town Road' clocked its 13th week at the pinnacle of the chart, passing the respective 12-week runs for […]
Producer Banshee repurposed vocal snippets discovered in “deep YouTube wormholes” into four glossy club constructions for hit new EP 'Thought Bubbles', out this week, Fact Mag reports.
The Quietus made a collection of best French underground music from the month of June, which includes progressive/psych trio Nour, debut album from rapper Junior Bvndo, anti-capitalist hip-hop-meets-Europop by Jardin, guitar and electronics jam from French Loatian artist Ayankoko, and elegantly evolving drones and pulses by Mondkopf. Listen to it at tQ or Mixcloud.
